Monday, October 16

Horrific crash shatters body; heroic rescue has her battling
'To visit with Maureen DePrince, in her hospital room in Philadelphia, nearly two months after the horrific accident that severed her legs as she stood behind her parked U.S. mail van, is to gradually settle in on a theory of what makes a person a person.'Philadelphia Inquirer
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Monday, October 2

UPS: Collins blocked parcel compromise
UPS: "We reached an agreement that was palatable to UPS and the postal service. UPS and the postal service were walking in lockstep." However, ... when the compromise was presented to Sen. Collins' office, "they did not consider it or accept it."DMNews.com
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NALC: Reform bill fails in Senate over COP issue
Your Congress at work:"No conference committee was ever established and the bill that nearly passed the Senate was essentially a new version of the bill that none of our allies in the House, Democrat or Republican, had even seen. Indeed, few members of either the House or the Senate ever received a final version of the bill. Neither did the NALC or any of the other interested stakeholders. Had the House leadership forced a vote on it, few members of the House would have known for sure what was actually in the bill."NALC eActivist Newsletter
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